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by shredprez 5y ago
I think the "cosmic purpose and stakes" component of religion is really tough to beat, hence the enduring power of churches. Transposing that element into other spaces creates a lot of the same issues. Subtracting it eliminates th
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by shredprez 5y ago
If this weren't HN, I'd assume this comment is satire. Churches certainly aren't immune to censorship, hours of hate, death wishes (explicit or otherwise), or dehumanization. Social spaces are all vulnerable to the weaknesses
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by shredprez 5y ago
> A metaphor or analogy greatly oversimplifies reality and will lead you to make terrible decisions. I think I disagree with this. Metaphors and analogies provide interesting ways to illustrate principles, and good decisions are often ro
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by shredprez 5y ago
I don't think that's what GP is referring to. Ad-tech and similarly myopic business pressures are frequently at odds with usability, and those business pressures ultimately determine what solution makes it to (or remains in) produ
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by shredprez 5y ago
Also: dehydration and dry-mouth secondary to stimulant use, classic accelerators of bacterial overgrowth and consequent tooth decay.
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by shredprez 5y ago
The Four Horse-thems of the Fox News Apocalypse? (Edit: boo, your edit ruined my great joke). Seriously though, Q-Anon has to be number one.
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by shredprez 6y ago
Love this idea! Been a quiet couple years for me as an artist, but very proud of what I have out there. - Songwriting: https://soundcloud.com/midnightfight - Instrumental beats: https://soundcloud.com/leopar
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by shredprez 6y ago
> As Adam Smith said, "there is a great deal of ruin in a nation" Tired brain read this as "there's a great deal in a ruin of a nation." Close enough, I guess?
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by shredprez 6y ago
Point taken!
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by shredprez 6y ago
"It has nothing to do with Trump at all" might be a strong assertion, but this history is absolutely relevant. Thanks for sharing.
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by shredprez 6y ago
I agree the numbers are (relatively) few, but those very few people are exactly the people we're discussing. How do you integrate them? We're not talking about Trump voters as a whole. They're welcome to believe they were rob
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by shredprez 6y ago
How do you integrate people who are hostile to the system and would rather see it destroyed than become part of it?
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by shredprez 6y ago
>When a social medium or a cloud service shows that it is more powerful than the sitting President of the US, something is seriously wrong. This line of thinking in the time we're living through is so, so weird to me. Do people not
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by shredprez 6y ago
And miss an opportunity to protest the #plandemic? It’s like you don’t get Q at all...
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by shredprez 6y ago
For the recreated you, sure.
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by shredprez 6y ago
I haven’t followed the Reddit situation closely, who are the victims of Reddit leadership’s disapproval? I’m sympathetic to that second point, but I don’t know if I agree isolation is what’s driving the gap in understanding. The tone of dis
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by shredprez 6y ago
Aren't people stuck working out in public exactly the people who should think carefully about passing that risk on to others in their extended family? It's a horrible position to be in, but I don't think it's silly.
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by shredprez 6y ago
This is a really interesting perspective I haven't run into before. It definitely captures a subtractive strain of political and social thought I find incredibly frustrating. The lefty "woke" variant is hotly criticized latel
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by shredprez 6y ago
There is absolutely a stigma against obesity in the US. The country’s fixation on weight is well-documented and the last decade of “body-positivity” has done little to change it. That said, the stigma against obesity is absolutely less seve
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by shredprez 6y ago
Objects don't have to appear utilitarian in order to have utility. It's worth accounting for the psychological impact of manufactured environments: a circle of custom fiberglass Star Trek chairs can sell a bold new initiative or e
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by shredprez 6y ago
A better measuring stick might be lawyers and judges regularly applying the law in inconsistent ways.
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by shredprez 6y ago
Hackers are specifically interested in exploring/exploiting the way human nature makes all machines vulnerable. IE taking a reasonably well-defined system of rules built with good intentions and using them for something entirely uninte
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by shredprez 6y ago
Definitely not just you. Instant migraine trigger over here.
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by shredprez 6y ago
Online communities are basically just discussion boards, so you need something for people to talk about, people who want to talk about it, and functionality allowing them to talk to one another. The structure of a discussion board is usuall
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by shredprez 6y ago
I repeat, good god. I am familiar with the linguistic norms at play here, and if I come across an herb in a grassy meadow, I’ll happily say so. It’s specifically the collision of the dialectal “an” and a slang expression strictly pronounc
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by shredprez 6y ago
"An herb", good god. But completely agree. For anyone who hasn't followed what's happening to Gawker's corpse, this is worth a read: https://theconcourse.deadspin.com/the-adults-in-the-room-183...
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by shredprez 6y ago
If voting is effectively curtailed, can it really be called a referendum?
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by shredprez 6y ago
It's important to distinguish between education and the business of education. I don't think I believe more education can ever be a bad thing. But the business of education in the US is an absolute nightmare that corrupts the spir
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by shredprez 6y ago
I don't know, I kind of love the idea of basic sustenance being a hassle-free given and "money for food" being limited the realm of pleasure or entertainment. Not to make any argument for the feasibility of the idea, of cours
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by shredprez 6y ago
I always hear the argument that UBI will essentially subsidize people's ability to pursue work that gives them meaning/purpose, particularly if it isn't highly valued (economically) by their local market. What does HN think a

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